False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This weed we call self-actualization….It refers to man’s desire for self-fulfillment, namely to the tendency for him to become actually in what he is potentially: to become everything one is capable of becoming.

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

The job is, if we are willing to take it seriously, to help ourselves to be more perfectly what we are, to be more full, more actualizing, more realizing in fact, what we are in potentiality.

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.